Tribes Fight for Return of Items Looted From Bodies During Wounded Knee Massacre

This story was originally published by ProPublica. One afternoon earlier this year, Wendell Yellow Bull received a call from a longtime friend with word of a troubling discovery. Objects from one of the most notorious massacres of Native Americans in U.S. history were in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, his friend said. Some of them appeared to be children’s toys…

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